Its existence was only confirmed through aerial photography, the kind of quiet revelation that has transformed understanding of prehistoric Ireland over recent decades. What the photographs revealed was a subrectangular outline, roughly 110 metres by 60 metres, large enough to encompass a significant area of ground but subtle enough to have escaped notice at field level.

The site was identified through the Bruff Survey and recorded on Map 23 as reference Bruff 239, with the aerial photograph catalogued as AP 4/3685. Doody, writing in 2008, described it as a large subrectangular enclosure and noted that its morphology suggested a possible Bronze Age date. The Bronze Age in Ireland spans roughly 2500 to 500 BC, and enclosures from this period vary considerably in their likely function, encompassing everything from settlement boundaries to ceremonial spaces. Without excavation, the purpose of the Baskethill enclosure remains genuinely open. Its shape and scale are the primary evidence, and from those alone only cautious conclusions can be drawn. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in November 2013 as part of the broader effort to document sites of this kind before they are lost to development or agricultural change.

Because the enclosure was identified from the air rather than through visible earthworks, visitors should not expect to find an obvious physical feature on the ground. Aerial crop marks and soil marks of this type are typically most visible from above during dry summers, when differential moisture retention in the soil causes buried features to show up as variations in vegetation growth. On foot, the site may appear as ordinary farmland. Access to agricultural land in Ireland requires landowner permission, and nothing in the available record indicates any formal public access here. The value of Baskethill lies less in what can be seen and more in what it represents, namely the degree to which the Irish prehistoric landscape remains only partially legible, with whole chapters of it becoming visible only when viewed from the right angle, at the right time of year, under the right conditions.